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Topic: Season of Audi Sales Event "Lake" (Read 2063 times)

Hi GuysLast year I was luckey enough to be asked to provide all the terragen work on one of the adverts for the winter Season of Audi Sales Event.The spot had 3 terragen scenes, each split between fall/autumn and winter, so actually six shots in all; the trees and ground cover having to match pervectly between the autumn/fall and winter versions of each shot.I did all the terragen work, Ethan Summers at Underground VFX was on art direction and FX and final comp and filming was done by Mission VFX.Trees and veg by Xfrog and Speed Tree and me.

Just saw this Richard, it all looks very believable, nice work. It would be great to see a VFX break down of this. Did you do the water moving at the beginning too? And the road at the end that the cars are on? CG cars right? You guys just swapped cameras to match?

Thanks The water is not CGI. The camera moves were supplied by the client (The Mission) and we created two versions, an autumn and a winter for the three scenes that were Terregen, The cars driving parallel to the camera, the cars driving down the road by the lake and the cars driving towards the camera at the end. Yes the cars are all CGI and not rendered in Terregen. Depth passes were used to alter the haze levels and help run the change from Autumn to winter. Kicked up now and particles were done in Maya.It's probably the most complex scene I've tackled so far and Terragens ability to work pretty much seamlessly with other programs via .chan and .fbx import and render layers made it pretty straightforward.